![Item #BB1185 The Ash Garden [Signed]. Dennis BOCK](https://fineeditionsltd.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/BB1185.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1499794216)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. Advance Reading Copy. Stiff Wraps. Uncorrected Proof, ARC. 8vo: [10],285,[1]. Publisher's stiff wraps, with cover design by Carol Devine Carson, with publisher's reply card laid in. Signed and dated ("June 2/01") by Bock on title page. As New and unread. Bock's first novel, following..... more
![Item #BB2736 Room at the Top [with Uncorrected Proof]. John BRAINE, John Minton](https://fineeditionsltd.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/BB2736.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1650382289)
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1957. First Edition. First Impression of Braine's first book, offered with the scarce uncorrected proof. Crown 8vo (189 x 122mm): 256pp. Publisher's green cloth, spine lettered in gold, in the striking dust jacket (price-clipped) illustrated by John Minton. An excellent example (spine ends very lightly bruised)..... more
![Item #BB2320 The Uncollected Stories of John Cheever 1930-1981 [Advance Reading Copy]; [together...](https://fineeditionsltd.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/BB2320.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1598204968)
Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers [through 1998], 1988. First Edition. A trio of publications (Advance Reading Copy, Advance Excerpt, and First Printing), all unread and virtually pristine, documenting four years of litigation in state and federal courts that ended in a stop-publish order barring a volume of uncollected short stories by..... more
![Item #BB1911 The Danger Tree [Uncorrected Proof]. Olivia MANNING](https://fineeditionsltd.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/BB1911.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1650552320)
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1977. Advance Reading Copy. Wrappers. Uncorrected proof of the first title in Manning's Levant Trilogy, with publisher's press release and compliments slip laid in. Tall 8vo (214 x 138mm): 196pp. Publisher's stiff tangerine-colored wrappers printed in black. Fine, tightly bound copy (apparently unread) with light smudge..... more
![Item #BB2284 [El otoño del patriarca] The Autumn of the Patriarch [with Advance Reading Copy]....](https://fineeditionsltd.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/BB2284.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1598204897)
London: Jonathan Cape, 1970. First British Edition. Hardcover. First Impression, plus an uncommon uncorrected proof, of García Márquez's first novel following the worldwide success of One Hundred Years of Solitude. 8vo (215 x 130; 209 x 135mm): [6],229,[1]; [6],269,[1]pp. Publisher's Prussian blue paper-covered boards with simulated cloth grain, spine stamped..... more
![Item #BB2159 The Dwarfs [Uncorrected Advance Proof]. Harold PINTER](https://fineeditionsltd.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/BB2159.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1598143234)
London: Faber and Faber, 1990. Stiff Wrappers. A pristine uncorrected reading proof of the Nobel Prize-winner's first and only novel, written in the early 1950's, before he turned to theater, but only published in 1990. The novel, says Michael Billington, Pinter's biographer, holds the key to all of Pinter's later..... more
New York: Morrow, 1991. First Edition. Wrappers. Uncorrected Bound Galleys of the author's "most ambitious and successful novel." (Literary Encyclopedia) Crown 8vo (202 x 129mm): 639,[1]pp. Saffron paper wrappers lettered in black. Presumably an early (or first) issue, without publication date in manuscript to front cover and printing error resulting..... more